22:52, 17 February 2007

Poultry mortality observed in Adygea

Residents of aul Khodz (Koshekhabl District of Adygea) have lost about 80 percent of their poultry. Loss of poultry is also marked in aul Egerukhai of the same District. The Republic's Committee for Agriculture ("Rosselkhoz") and Committee for Consumer Supervision ("Rospotrebnadzor") assert that the reason of mortality is not the bird (avian) flu. However, they are not able to name the disease either.

Most probably, it is a plague, the experts say, to what symptoms indicate. Only timely vaccination can save the birds.

We remind you that according to news agencies, in the neighbouring Labinsk District of the Krasnodar Territory the loss of poultry was caused by bird flu, although the Territory's authorities had long denied it.

We remind you also that last winter a focus of bird flu was found on farmsteads of one of the suburbs of the capital of Adygea - city of Maikop - in the North-East Gardens. Then, quarantine was introduced there.

Author: Aslan Shazzo, CK correspondent